Sunday, January 3, 2016

Red Pond

The senses dull forced for searching this thrill
            this life of intrapsychic yearning
            this inveigling of self
            to fly this abreaction, semi-damaged
            chasing for blithe, while buried in personas.

He dies a modicum of freedom
            seeking for buttress the nectar of a
tangerine wine, falling backwards into the
arms of solipsism;     
            to claim for pivot a grudge to flee
            through links, through chains
            this ironclad self-abasement.

She searches for androgen traits
            where he nurtures distance;
            to walk from self, a stranger to a mirror
            floating through limbo, sliced at the core
            of self;
                        in which are upheavals, to wrestle
                        monsters, stationed in a mirror’s
                        reflection. 

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